Two people dead and seven more still missing after a landslide It impacted a road under construction in central China’s Hubei province last Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency reported today.
The landslide caused by the heavy rains that have hit the area in recent days dragged on last Saturday local afternoon. More than 500,000 cubic meters of rock and soil About the place where workers work in Yueshan town, located in the municipal district of Yichang city.
Hundreds of soldiers are involved in the search to find the seven workers still buried under the rubble. The surname Wang, one of the participants in the rescue effort and quoted by the agency, said the work was “complicated” due to the large amount of soil and rock displaced, and there was still a “risk of new geological disasters”.